The Machine Empire
While Sonic was inside the ship, he noticed that Amy was keeping a distance from him. He walked over to her, but she turned her head.
"Hey Amy." He said to her.
She didn't answer.
"Well, is there a reason why you're staying away from me?"
She still kept her head turned away, but she answered the question. "I'm staying out of your way, or being less annoying as you might say." She said. She had a tear in her eye.
"Amy, you do realize I didn't mean to say that right?"
"You sounded serious to me." She answered.
"Well, even if you are trying to be less annoying, it's not working. You're bugging me right now because you're completely ignoring me."
Amy got up from her chair. "Well then, fair enough. If it'll make you happy I'll stay away from you for good." She said sadly. She was tearing up.
Sonic tried to see what was going on. "Amy, are you crying?"
"No." she lied. "Goodbye…Sonic." She left.
"Sonic, we're here!" Tails announced.
"Huh, girls. Can't live with them, can't live without them." Sonic muttered to himself.
As Sonic got out, he was looking at a humongous empire made out of machine parts.
"This looks welcoming." Sonic joked.
"Let's just get this over with." Shadow said impatiently.
Sonic and Shadow dashed into the empire. Shadow and Sonic were having a conversation while they were running.
"So Sonic, I hear you're having girl trouble." Shadow said.
"Shut up, I am not!" Sonic said.
"I can tell you are! Admit it!" Shadow said trying to get Sonic to say that he was having problems with Amy.
"Fine, maybe I am! There! Are you happy now?" Sonic said.
"Oh yes I am!" Shadow said trying to annoy Sonic. Sonic knew what he was planning. "If you're trying to annoy me, it won't work!"
"Whatever. What's the problem?" Shadow asked.
"Well she said that she's staying away from me because she's trying to be less annoying after I told her she was."
"You told her? Sonic, let me tell you something. When talking to a girl, you NEVER, EVER, tell anything bad about them."
"How would you know? You never went out with a girl." Sonic said.
"Well, one time, I said something bad about Rouge while I was with her, and the next thing I know, her foot was in my face."
"Oh, well, whatever. Let's drop this conversation. We're just about to enter the empire." Sonic said.
"Sure." Shadow agreed. They entered the empire, with nearly robots all over the place.
They went down many hallways, encountering many enemies along the way. The place looked very machine-like, with machines that was generating the electricity around the place and keeping the empire from crumbling. They were able to grind on many rails, and also use some technological stuff like Extreme Gear that ran on electricity rather than air, karts that ran along rails, and they even found some lasers that helped them defeat enemies faster.
"It seems like we've been going through this place for like an hour. Where is this emerald?" Sonic asked.
"Calm down. I'm sure we're closer. Ah! Here we are!" Shadow said. They both came up to a gigantic door. "According to this, the next emerald is right through this door."
It needed both Sonic and Shadow to push the door open. However, the room was dark.
"He-hello?" Sonic said.
They looked ahead. They each saw a yellow Chaos Emerald floating.
"There it is!" Sonic exclaimed. Sonic ran up to it, but suddenly, the lights turned on. They were in a room that was gigantic, covered completely in solid gold. They were in a throne room. There was a large robot sitting in the throne chair. The chair then suddenly dashed away from Sonic and Shadow.
"Shadow, what's going on?" Sonic asked.
"I don't know Sonic, but we're about to find out."
The robot rose up his hand, and suddenly, out of nowhere, many robots came out.
"Oh, so he's sending reinforcements? Chicken." Shadow said. "This'll be a piece of cake."
Sonic and Shadow destroyed the robots like they were nothing. But more came, stronger than the last. Every time Sonic and Shadow would destroy one set of robots, another stronger set would come. There were so many robots that it seemed endless, and that it was taking Sonic and Shadow forever.
"There's so many of them!" Sonic complained.
"Don't worry. I have a feeling we're almost done." Shadow said.
In fact, after Sonic and Shadow finished the set of robots that they were on, the robots stopped coming. Finally, the huge robot got out of the chair and took out a sword.
"I think he wants us to fight him." Shadow said.
"Alright now, let's give it all we got!" Sonic said.
Shadow nodded, and they attacked the robot several times. For a robot he seemed pretty dumb. But he made it up for pure power. Every time he jumped in the air, when he landed, it caused a humongous earthquake. This stunned Sonic and Shadow. The robot then swung the sword at them, knocking them back.
"Argh, he's strong." Shadow said. "Fortunately though I have a plan."
"You do? Sonic asked confused.
"Yeah, now listen carefully."
Shadow whispered his plan to Sonic. Sonic nodded his head every time he understood.
"Got it?" Shadow asked.
"Got it." Sonic agreed.
Sonic took out the green emerald and turned into the thorn plant. But instead of attacking the robot directly, he spun around the legs, tripping the robot. Shadow took a laser gun from one of the other fallen robots and shot at the robots head. But since the robot was strong, it took a few tries to finally defeat the robot. Finally, the robot fell down on the floor and blew up. The yellow Chaos Emerald floated down right in front of Sonic and Shadow. They grabbed the emerald and used Chaos Control to return to the ship. Before they got in, they saw the empire fall into pieces.
"Good thing we weren't in there." Shadow said.
The ship flew off into the distance. Four Chaos Emeralds have been collected, and only three remained.